Senior Quantity Surveyor (Sizewell C)

EDF Energy Limited; Leiston; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Civil Works Alliance (CWA) is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Commercial team on the Sizewell C project in the UK. You will lead commercial activities across major civil engineering works, ensuring profitability and compliance with contracts while collaborating with operations, planning, procurement, and stakeholders.

You will mentor junior commercial staff and drive delivery of cost forecasts, reports, and procurement strategies, contributing to a high‑performing project

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience.
• Membership of RICS, CIOB, ICES, or working towards professional accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Managing commercial and contractual aspects of major civil engineering works.
• Reviewing and negotiating subcontract packages, variations, compensation events, and claims.
• Monitoring commercial performance and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
• Supporting procurement strategies and tender evaluations.
• Identifying and managing commercial risks and opportunities.
• Producing cost forecasts, financial reconciliations, and commercial reports.
• Building strong relationships with clients, partners, and supply chain stakeholders.
• Leading, mentoring, and developing junior commercial team members.

Skills

Commercial management

Contract administration

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Mentoring junior teams

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

RICS/CIOB/ICES accreditation or in-progress

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Senior Quantity Surveyor (Sizewell C)
CWA
Sizewell C

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Commercial team and play a key role in the successful delivery of this nationally significant programme.

This is an opportunity to work on a complex, multi-billion-pound project that will help secure the UK's energy future while developing your career within a collaborative and high-performing environment.

The Role

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will take ownership of commercial activities across major civil engineering and infrastructure works, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently, profitably, and in line with contractual obligations.

You'll work closely with operational, planning, procurement, and stakeholder teams, providing commercial leadership throughout the project lifecycle. You'll also support and mentor developing commercial professionals, helping to shape the next generation of talent within the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing commercial and contractual aspects of major civil engineering works.
• Reviewing and negotiating subcontract packages, variations, compensation events, and claims.
• Monitoring commercial performance and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
• Supporting procurement strategies and tender evaluations.
• Identifying and managing commercial risks and opportunities.
• Producing cost forecasts, financial reconciliations, and commercial reports.
• Building strong relationships with clients, partners, and supply chain stakeholders.
• Leading, mentoring, and developing junior commercial team members.

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience.
• Membership of RICS, CIOB, ICES, or working towards professional accreditation.

Experience

• Strong experience within civil engineering, infrastructure, energy, utilities, rail, highways, or major projects.
• Sound knowledge of contract administration, commercial management, and procurement.
• Experience managing variations, claims, and commercial risk.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Previous experience mentoring or leading commercial teams.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home‑grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low‑carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low‑carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We're not just building new nuclear power stations. We're developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there's always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind‑boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We're a responsible business and proud to be Britain's biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.